blight
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This pothole was merely one of more than a million that blight our roads.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
He believes these will help “reverse the blight of social disintegration” and provide “freedom from the state as well as the market.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Multiple factors caused the famine, including the potato blight that destroyed the main source of food, and the political and socioeconomic circumstances of British colonial rule.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
I recently wrote about all the blight around City Hall, including the graffiti-tagged monument and fountain that has been inoperable for most of the last 60 years.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
Instead of a chestnut blight or Dutch elm disease or dogwood anthracnose, what if there was just a tree blight—something indiscriminate and unstoppable that swept through whole forests?
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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